Please, I am trying to access the Internet on these two machines which are in a peer to peer network hooked up with a crossover cable with a NIC on each machine. This bit is fine. The WinSrv 2000 is the only machine with a 56k microlink modem, and I want to configure the Linux machine to have Internet functions through the help of WinSrv 2000.

I read in Mark Minasi's book Linux for Windows NT/2000 administrators, named the decoder ring that executing this script on the Linux box using root access would do the business.

ipchains -p forward DENY
ipchains -A forward -j MASQ
echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward

He rekones just entering the script again would be enough and that I'd be able to have Internet access on the Linux box. Please, any comments and infos on this would be greatly appreciated. I've not actually tried this yet hence the need for your professional comments and assistance in simplyfying this task.

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It looks like that script's could work if your Windoze box was connecting the the Internet through your Linux box but not the other way around. The first thing you need to do is make sure the two boxes are on the same subnet and can ping each other. Then setup some type of proxy server or NAT on the Windoze machine. Depending on what you setup on the Windoze box you would then either set the default route on the Linux box to be Windoze's IP address or configure it to use the appropriate ports/IP to access the proxy server.

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